Letters: Off by a million

In his "What's on your mind?" submission published on Nov. 11, Jack Wirtz wrote that every one of the 317 million citizens of the United States could have had a $2 million health account if the $635 million spent on the health care website would have been put into such accounts instead.

It seems Mr. Wirtz had a wee bit of trouble with his mathematical calculation on that point. That's because $635 million divided by $317 million would be slightly over $2 for each account, not the $2 million he stated. That's a multiplying error of one million times.

Ray Mueller

Chilton

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This is in response to Jack Witrz letter on Nov. 11. Mr Wirtz obviously uses the same math as the politicians taking care of our budget. He stated that the healthcare website cost a total of $635 million and the population of the United States is 317 million. I'm pretty sure that is not $2 million a person, rather about 2 bucks per person.

Richard Ramm

Sheboygan

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Letters: Off by a million

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